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Reading: Our readers have been super busy putting all their amazing reading and researching skills to good use this week. They have divided into groups and are together researching social issues like "Should there be zoos" or "Should people be allowed to participate in extreme sports." So many amazing conversations and discoveries have been happening and the students are looking forward to putting all their research to good use as they write rough drafts next week.
Writing: Researching has been happening in writing too, as students learn all about the hot topic of whether chocolate milk should be served in our cafeteria or not. Is it healthy? Is it the best choice for students at lunch? Stay tuned and you will be able to read our amazing argument essays!
Social studies: This week we started what is arguably one of the toughest chapters in 5th grade social studies (just because there is so much information) but certainly one of Miss Socier's favorite chapters. As we study each of the Native American Cultural Regions, we will ask ourselves what artifacts might these Natives have used? The GEOGRAPHY, ENVIRONMENT, AND CLIMATE of the area will provide clues and then our in-class detectives will solve the mystery! Great common sense and reading skills will be employed and practiced many times over again. Students are encouraged to study early and often to keep all information organized.
DG: There will be no DGs until after we return from camp.
Math
We worked on dividing fractions this week! We noticed that we can change our division problems into fractions!
Math
This week, students learned about multiplying fractions by a whole number! We also took some time to do some fun Halloween coordinate graphing.
Writing
Students are still busy being news reporters. We looked at the structure of a news story, and even realized that sometimes we can include TWO sides to a story! Students also looked at the tone of their stories to see if they could make them sound more meaningful to the reader.
Reading
Using all of our knowledge on reading nonfiction texts, students have launched into an inquiry project. They have chosen a topic that they want to learn more about. Over the next week, we will be using our skills of summarizing, picking out main ideas, and navigating tricky vocabulary within complex texts to learn more about our topic. We realize that we can learn from reading books, but have seen that there are other times we can research, like interviewing people, vising places, making observations, taking surveys, and even watching videos!
Science
Social Studies
Native Americans have been our focus for the past week. We have looked at their migration routes, their environments, and we specifically studied the adaptations of the Inuits. Ask your student about the seal skin floats! What an amazing adaptation! The test on chapter 2 will be on Friday, November 9, 2018.
DG
Students are busy working on answering the 15 questions on DG 3. They are due this coming Wednesday, November 7, 2018.
Halloween Party
Thank you to all the parents who helped put on great Halloween parties in 5th grade!
Mrs. Palma's Class Party
Miss Socier's Class Party
Miss Kochanski's Class Party
